AWA DANCE

AWA DANCE (Advancing Women's Aspirations with Dance) is a charity dedicated to the leadership development of all women and girls, using the transformative power of dance as the tool to empower their voices. AWA Dance are also a network of creative, confident and inspirational female leaders that contribute to the progress of the dance sector and 21st century society, by sharing and embodying five core values:

Dream big, take

Action,

Navigate the world,

Create artistic and leadership voice and

Empower others.

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Digital 4 Commission

Watch Let Them Eat Cake!

  • Inspired by a twist on the famous phrase by the French Queen Marie Antoinette, Let Them Eat Cake! is a short dance film on girls' empowerment and body image positivity. Three girls rebel against how society dictates how they see themselves.

    In Let Them Eat Cake! the three characters will transform from being "perfect girls" in their 18th-century costumes, to embrace who they really are.

    They will find pride and freedom in “confronting” the cake (smashing it, breaking it apart) as a way to empower their bodies and voices.

  • Director, Choreographer & Scriptwriter: Avatâra Ayuso

    Director of Photography: Gary Tanner

    Performers: Three Junior Ambassadors of AWA DANCE

    Dramaturg: Ignacio Vleming

    Costume Designer: Emilio de la Morena

    Cake Designer: Cakes by Julz

    Dance Producer: Anna Quiney

    Production assistant: Sherisse Bisram

    Chaperone: Anna Quiney

    AWA DANCE Team: Sam Lebiham, Rebecca David, Ana Neve, Alice Vahanian, Georgia Shire

  • R & D: January 2022

    Film: January 2022

    Edit: February / March 2022

    Premiere: 24th March 2022